Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1910 — GIFFORD PINCHOT MEETS ROOSEVELT [ARTICLE]

GIFFORD PINCHOT MEETS ROOSEVELT

Ex-Forester Sees Former President In Italy. ■ ?-■ , ■ I——— ' ■. ■■ ■ Theodore Roosevelt’s widely, heralded meeting with Gifford Pinchot, the deposed chief forester of the United States department of agriculture, took place on the veranda, of’ Miss Carew’s villa, overlooking the blue waters of Porto Maurizio in Italy, The interview proper came later in the seclusion of the forest that skirts the town at the north. Mr. Pinchot, who came direct from Copenhagen save for a six hours’ stop at Basle, Switzerland, had arrived at the hotel at midnight, rather tired after his long journey and suffering from a toothache, but he was up bright and early and told the newspaper men with whom he breakfasted that he felt “like a fighting cock.” He chatted gayly during the morning meal and seemed-to derive much satisfaction from the manner in which he had concealed his identity when he went aboard the steamer President Grant at New York. He announced in advance that he would have nothing to say regarding his interview with “the chief.” Mr. Roosevelt was busy with his correspondence when his former chief forester arrived. The greetings between the two men were extremely cordial. These over, Mr." Roosevelt returned to his letters, while Mr. Pinchot visited with Mrs, Roosevelt? After luncheon Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Pinchot, Mrs. Roosevelt and. her sister, Miss Carew, started out for a walk. They had not gone far when the two men fell into the swinging stride familiar to newspaper men who had seen them set out on the tramps that they used to make together into the Virginia hills to discuss in seclusion the matter of conservation and other questions. Soon the women were left benind. and the men, forging ahead, finally plunged into the fore St.